Australian Hiker

Show notes

On 11 November 2025 Australian Hiker celebrated its 9th birthday. In this podcast episode we reflect on our past year, and look at where we are heading over the coming year including our long distance hiking plans for 2026.

Podcast Overview

In this episode we talk about Australian Hiker’s past year as we celebrate our 9th Birthday!:

• Podcast Introduction (time index 00:01:32)
• Year 9 retrospective (time index 00:01:41)
  • Podcast
    • Now 333 podcast episodes released in total making continuing our run as Australia’s longest running and most downloaded hiking podcast
    • Over 1,250,000 total episode downloads
      • Top 5% of podcasts worldwide
    • A worldwide audience
    • Downloaded in 176 countries
    • Top 10 Podcast download countries for the past year
      1. Australia
      2. United States
      3. New Zealand
      4. UK
      5. Canada
      6. Germany
      7. Japan
      8. Ireland
      9. Singapore
      10. France

• • • Top 5 Podcast episodes for the past 12 months
      1. Episode 308 – Snowies Alpine Walk
      2. Episode 303 – The Tassie Backbone
      3. Episode 315 – Australian Triple Crown
      4. Episode 311 – What to do if you become lost while hiking (and what to do to prevent it)
      5. Episode 310 – Bibbulmun Track Interview with Trudie Marie

• • • There are certain episodes that are listed to on an annual basis as people plan there own walks

• • • Downside for 2025 (time index 00:08:00)
      • Apart from the podcast we have been light on almost all other types of articles e.g. we only reviewed 5 walks
        • Why was that?

• • Where to next? (time index 00:15:40)
    • 2026 plans
    • 34 episodes scheduled including from Tim’s two long distance hikes
    • Walks
      • More regular walk reviews for 2026
      • Moving further afield
    • Advice articles
      • A backlog of 112 articles to draw from (that will last us a few years!)
    • Gear reviews
      • 100 gear reviews planned for 2026
    • Reviewing the reviews (ongoing)
    • Trade shows 2026 – yet to confirm
    • Long distance hikes for 2026
      • 2 planned
        • Grampians Peak Trail, Victoria
        • Heysen Trail, South Australia
• Thank you for all your support

Close (time index 00:24:38)

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• Through our website. All our episodes can be found here
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